No Recipe Today…Yet

Anna | July 31, 2007

I’m on the fence about whether I should post today’s recipe — a lemon pound cake made with cream cheese. The recipe is from a very old and not-so-reliable source and pan size, cook-time….everything in the original recipe seemed to be wrong. The catch is, after I’d made some adjustments, the end result [...]

Glazed Peanut Butter Bars

Anna | July 30, 2007

I wasn’t planning on baking cookies today, but Taste of Home magazine showed up in the mail, and page 31 had a very tempting photo of some glazed peanut butter bars. Fuzz had gone next door to play, so I took a few minutes to whip up a batch.
The original recipe, which was [...]

Caramel Cream Pie with Candied Almonds

Anna | July 29, 2007

Here’s a recipe you don’t run across every day. It’s an old one — a very basic caramel cream pie which was invented in 1952. I believe it was a bake-off entry.
This pie is very easy, but there is a lot of cooling and chilling time involved, so it’s a good pie to make on [...]

Blogher 2007

Anna | July 28, 2007

Happy Weekend!
Or happy post-weekend to those of you reading this on Monday….in which case I am writing a letter to the future.
But as I type this, it’s Saturday and at this very moment, a bunch of bloggers are bonding at Blogher 2007. I wish I could be there and am kicking myself for not [...]

Video Clip

Anna | July 27, 2007

Sorry I didn’t have a recipe today. Here’s something non-cookie related which we were talking about in the comment section yesterday….Flight of the Conchords on HBO. It’s a show about two guys from New Zealand who move to New York City to try to make it as musicians.